Hmmm
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"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier ... just as long as I'm the dictator." - George "Dubya" Bush, Dec 18, 2000
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"That's your plan? Wile E. Coyote would come up with a better plan than that!"
- Crighton, Farscape.
My theory: I dunno, really. I've heard all kinds of different rumors from different people and different new things, so we probably wont know what it is until 2002.
Anyone think it's a hoax?
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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"
(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)
Mustang Class Starship Development Project
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Luke Ford: "What's it like having a dick in your ass?"
Zoe: "Imagine taking your bottom lip and pulling it over the top of your head. You get used to it but it does hurt."
Fits the bill, I think.
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"Still one thing more fellow-citizens--A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government..."
-Thomas Jefferson
"One editor who saw the proposal went as far as to speculate -- jokingly (perhaps) -- that IT was a type of personal hovering craft."
Well, apparently, someone had a similar thought.
Another thing occurs to me. You don't suppose someone finally invented a transporter...?
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"Still one thing more fellow-citizens--A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government..."
-Thomas Jefferson
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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
-Tleilaxu Epigram
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Me: "Why don't you live in Hong Kong?"
Rachel Roberts: "Hong Kong? Nah. Oh, but we can live in China! Yeah, China has great Chinese food!"
(discussion with fellow classmate, 9/5/00)
Mustang Class Starship Development Project
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"...[They've] been so completely dumbed down by the media, by tabloid scumbags, by the Christian "right", by politicians in general, the school, parents who are dumber than their parents were, who are dumber than their parents were, and all of whom think that they can bring up a child just because they got down in bed and had a little sex...well, frankly, here is an audience that knows more and more about less and less as the years go by...We are talking about a constituency...that knows nothing. This is pandemic; terrifyingly, paralyzingly pandemic. They know absolutely nothing."
- Harlan Ellison, on the Media Consumer of today.
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Two atoms walk into a bar. One atom says to the other atom:
"I've lost an electron!"
"Are you sure?"
"I'm positive!"
Would it fly? This would be one hell of a headache, especially for pilots of low-flying private planes, and pilots of big jets coming in for a landing at an airport. You'd be looking at some sort of traffic pattern for the sky, similar to "Back to the Future II"
Second, if it's a personal scooter for driving on the road, would anyone buy it? Sure it might get great gas mileage, but if that Geo Metro (or something much much bigger) hits you, you're dead. No second guesses, no helmet going to save you, you're gone gone gone.
I doubt the transporter theory. Honestly, if it IS the transporter, I'm sure the military would have it under lock and key and out of the news.
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"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier ... just as long as I'm the dictator." - George "Dubya" Bush, Dec 18, 2000
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20th century, go to sleep.
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R.E.M.
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Read chapters one and two of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! Show no patience, tolerance, or restraint.
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20th century, go to sleep.
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R.E.M.
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Read chapters one and two of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! Show no patience, tolerance, or restraint.
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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
-Tleilaxu Epigram
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"One's ethics are determined by what we do when no one is looking"
look at this line:
quote:
Concerns include whether the invention will fit into current regulations, and if huge corporations
will erect obstacles to it.
We all know that if something is released that rivals the car/petrol consumption the big oil companies will try to put a stop to it. You can't tell me in all these years we haven't been able to come up with a viable alternative source of energy, or a fully working electric car? If we stop needing the oil/petrol - whole middle eastern countries would lie destitute and oil barrens and metanationals would loose megabucks. What HAS happened to our Hydrogen Fuel Cells and those two French guys who 'discovered' cold fusion? Huh?
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"This is cooling, faster than I can..." Tori Amos "Cooling"
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Star Trek Gamma Quadrant
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"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a lot easier ... just as long as I'm the dictator." - George "Dubya" Bush, Dec 18, 2000
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Here lies a toppled god,
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.
-Tleilaxu Epigram
2.) "You can't tell me in all these years we haven't been able to come up with a viable alternative source of energy, or a fully working electric car?"
In all these years, no one has been able to come up with a cheaper and easier to use source of energy than fossil fuels, and electric cars still aren't able to meet the transportation needs of most car owners.
3.) "and those two French guys who 'discovered' cold fusion?"
They were laughed out of the scientific community for making unsupportable and unrepeatable claims.
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20th century, go to sleep.
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R.E.M.
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Read chapters one and two of "Dirk Tungsten in...The Disappearing Planet"! Show no patience, tolerance, or restraint.
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"You must give in to tock." - The First One
quote:
his device will be an alternative to products that �are dirty, expensive, sometimes dangerous and often frustrating, especially for people in the cities.�
This implies that it's more than likely a transportation device. That scooter thing would be my bet, but if so, I'd have to question the justification for all the hype. Y'know?
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"Hmmm.... fascinating"
My Grandma has one.
Now,
Mind Control devices which make all Victoria's Secret models want to sleep with me = Revolutionary.
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"...[They've] been so completely dumbed down by the media, by tabloid scumbags, by the Christian "right", by politicians in general, the school, parents who are dumber than their parents were, who are dumber than their parents were, and all of whom think that they can bring up a child just because they got down in bed and had a little sex...well, frankly, here is an audience that knows more and more about less and less as the years go by...We are talking about a constituency...that knows nothing. This is pandemic; terrifyingly, paralyzingly pandemic. They know absolutely nothing."
- Harlan Ellison, on the Media Consumer of today.
Y'know what makes him even funnier? Knowing he sounds like Robert Stack.
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"Reading snow is like listening to music. To describe what you've read is like explaining music in writing." ---Smilla Jaspersen
But anyway, I wonder how high this thing hovers. It looks awfully cramped on there, too.
But I want one when it comes out.
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"Life end when you die. But imagination share with others, live forever."
--Quan, Final Fantasy IX
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"...[They've] been so completely dumbed down by the media, by tabloid scumbags, by the Christian "right", by politicians in general, the school, parents who are dumber than their parents were, who are dumber than their parents were, and all of whom think that they can bring up a child just because they got down in bed and had a little sex...well, frankly, here is an audience that knows more and more about less and less as the years go by...We are talking about a constituency...that knows nothing. This is pandemic; terrifyingly, paralyzingly pandemic. They know absolutely nothing."
- Harlan Ellison, on the Media Consumer of today.
"A bomb? Isn't that dangerous?"
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I looked at my son, and said, "My god, he's hung like a bear."
"That's the umbillical cord, Mr. Williams."
-Robin Williams, "A Night at the Met" 1986
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"This is cooling, faster than I can..." Tori Amos "Cooling"
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"Oh, yes, screw logic, let's go for a theory with no evidence!"
-Forum Member Who Shall Be Nameless. 11:48am, Jan. 19th, 2001
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"Brave New World: 'The future sucks. Or does it? Hell if I know. Ooh, LSD!'" - Simon Sizer
Or perhaps it was so stupid that he couldm't hold back his laughter.
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"Evil takes many forms, but my favorite is a jelly donut."
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Maybe its a sex thang...
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"This is cooling, faster than I can..." Tori Amos "Cooling"
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"I rather strongly disagree, even if I share the love of Dick. Speaking of which, that would be the most embarrasing .sig quote ever, so never use it."
- Simon Sizer, 23/01/2001